Boomer Gal: Readers share TV favorites, wild parenting tales

11:40 PM,
Sep. 29, 2012

Written by

Kathleen Norton

It's time to hear from some readers, and they've got plenty to say - about books, bad days with kids and boomer trivia.

Mitzi Loatman of LaGrange shared my sorrow over the passing in recent months of American writer Nora Ephron and Irish novelist Maeve Binchy - and she understood my need to reread books by authors like these because it feels like you're visiting with good friends.

Of Binchy, she said: "I love her writing. It's so warm and funny and down to earth. I especially like the way it's all about Ireland. I wanted a different outlook on life, and I sure got it with her book. I feel like I lost a ...